Events

Amersham Town Council is inviting you to join the Great British Spring Clean 2025, which is part of the national Keep Britain Tidy initiative celebrating its tenth anniversary.

The event will take place on Sat 29 Mar 2025, between 9.30am and 11am. Meeting points: beside St Michael’s Church, Sycamore Road & outside the Memorial Gardens, Old Amersham. Litter pickers and bags will be provided.

Everyone welcome. Please do come along and help to improve the environment of our town.

(PLEASE NOTE THE SPEAKER/SUBJECT CHANGE)

“Homefires and Havens – Amersham during WWII” is a talk by Alison Bailey of  Amersham Museum.

Despite the national economic downturn, in many ways Amersham was booming in the 1930s with new Metroland developments, the arrival of ‘talkies’ at the Regent Cinema and Sally Latimer’s Playhouse Theatre. But after months of speculation war against Germany was declared on Sun 3 Sep 1939 and everything changed overnight. Sandbags appeared piled up at the front of the shops, gas masks were issued and soon petrol and food rationing were introduced.

80 years after the war ended, this talk looks at our local stories, including fundraising to buy a submarine, spies who trained in nearby stately homes, the circus animals that lived in Chalfont St Giles and the evacuees and émigrés who found a safe haven here in the Chiltern countryside.

Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available from 7.30pm. The talk starts at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.

Lord Byron wasn’t just a poet, he was a rock star. The most prominent and outrageous celebrity of the Romantic era, he lived life to excess – but his relations with women were scandalous and often appalling.

This talk explores those relationships in the context of the social conventions of the time, Byron’s extraordinary rise to fame and legend, and his unparalleled notoriety for drink, sex and rebellion.

The speaker, Jeremy Holmes, was an English scholar at Oxford who has spoken to numerous literary and non-literary audiences.

Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available from 7.30pm. The talk starts at 8.00pm. No booking necessary. Guests and new members welcome.

If you wish to raise anything at the Amersham Society Committee Meeting, please contact the Chair, Edward Copisarow, on 07932 152522.

A talk by Neil Rees. Further details to follow.

If you wish to raise anything at the Amersham Society Committee Meeting, please contact the Chair, Edward Copisarow, on 07932 152522.

If you wish to raise anything at the Amersham Society Committee Meeting, please contact the Chair, Edward Copisarow, on 07932 152522.

A talk by Denise Beddows. Further details to follow.

Annual General Meeting followed by a charity talk by a speaker from Helen & Douglas House. Further details to follow.

If you wish to raise anything at the Amersham Society Committee Meeting, please contact the Chair, Edward Copisarow, on 07932 152522.